A novice always behaves with propriety.
If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.
You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
You ask what a nice girl will do? She won't give an inch, but she won't say no.
All your female friends are either old or ugly; nay, more ugly than old women usually are. These you lead about in your train, and drag with you to feasts, porticos and theaters. Thus, Fabulla, you seem handsome, thus you seem young.